Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.

Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy.

In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

I am very grateful to our Muslim population. One of the things we've been doing is stepping up our inter-faith dialogue with the Muslim population. And I think that helped very much in their support for me.

On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them.

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.

In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

I can say that I have not done any culpable violation of the constitution.

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

I'm not worried. I'm in control.

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible, to extend immediate and effective relief when it is not.